The Old West – This barn is located in the Grand Tetons National Park in an area known as Mormon’s Row. Along with several other historical buildings and homesites, the barn attracts primarily photographers looking for buildings that represent their concept of the Old West. The original of this photo was a color image which has been processed in PhotoShop and Nik Silver Efex Pro. I think the sepia toning adds even further to what I was trying to capture […]
Monthly Archives: July 2012
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Esslingen am Neckar Photo, posted 2012-07-31
Esslingen – This is a scan of a slide taken during my first military tour in Germany, circa 1978. It is a view of the church in the distance and some of the houses in the city of Esslingen am Neckar. Esslingen is southeast of the city of Stuttgart and was a short distance from the Army post where I was stationed in Nellingen Ostfildern. Esslingen is located along the Neckar River. While the cities of Esslingen, Nellingen, and Stuttgart […]
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Robin Photo, posted 2012-07-31
Robin – The last day of July. When I was young, we always hated the last day of July. It meant that the end of summer vacation was nearing. Soon we would have to go back to school. It also meant that we were usually heading into the hottest time of the year. Hopefully that’s not the case this year. As July wraps up, the weather forecast is for another day over 100 – July has been a real scorcher […]
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Viewpoint Motivation, Inspiration, Chasing the Aesthetic, posted 2012-07-30
Gourd – This photo of a gourd has only limited relationship to the title of this post other than it is something I wouldn’t normally shoot. I found it, and several others on the same vines, interesting because of the double bulb shape. To me this was unusual because most of the gourds I had seen in the past had were shaped more like a dipper with a long handle and single large bulb. So I was motivated or perhaps inspired to […]
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Flower, Missouri Botanical Garden, posted 2012-07-30
Missouri Botanical Garden – As the end of July approaches, I went back and pulled out this photo of an iris from earlier this spring. The temperatures at the time were much cooler and rainfall for the year had been almost normal at the time. Flowers were plentiful, both in the Botanical Garden and other locations in the area. Since then, like much of the country, St. Louis has moved into a period of extremely hot temperatures and almost no […]
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Lantern Festival Photo, Terracotta Army, posted 2012-07-29
Lantern Festival, Missouri Botanical Garden – This display represents figures from the “Terracotta Army”. There are four of the soldier figures along with the flags shown here that appear to be guarding one of the gates to the Garden. The Terracotta Army is a set of about 8,000 sculptures representing the armies of the first Emperor of China, Qin Shi Huang. They have been dated to sometime in the 3rd century BC but were only found by some farmers in […]
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Crocus Photo, posted 2012-07-28
Missouri Botanical Garden – An early spring day at the Garden. The weather was wonderful. Most of the flowers were just starting to come out of the winter but daffodils and other spring flowers were in bloom. One fairly large field (lawn?) area was almost covered with crocus, either purple ones like this on white ones. They were only there for a short time, but we know that like Garden visitors they will return although it will be about a […]
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27
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Lantern Festival Photo, Qilin, posted 2012-07-27
Lantern Festival, Missouri Botanical Garden – Made another night visit to the Lantern Festival at the Botanical Garden yesterday. Wasn’t sure if the weather was going to hold since it was cloudy during the late afternoon and there was rain south of the city. The weather cleared and the displays were really beautiful. This display is called Qilin. According to the Botanical Garden’s brochure, “Qilins are rare creatures composed of different animal forms, some real and some mythical. The look […]
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Flower, Missouri Botanical Garden, posted 2012-07-27
Missouri Botanical Garden – Seems hard to believe that this photo of one of the many irises at the Botanical Garden was taken almost three months ago. At that time blooming flowers were abundant and while the water droplets here are from the sprinkler system drought was not on anyone’s mind. I visited the Garden last night for a second, and probably final nighttime visit to the Lantern Festival. While there are still a few plants with blooms, the heat […]
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Lantern Festival Photo, Pandas, posted 2012-07-26
Lantern Festival, Missouri Botanical Garden – Not all of the lanterns and displays at the Garden’s Lantern Festival are dragons or people. As can be seen here, the pandas also make an appearance. The Garden used one of the pandas as a teaser before the Lantern Festival opened, moving it throughout the Garden in a scavenger hunt-like game. When the Festival opened, that panda along with many of its friends found a home in an area of the garden where […]
